Food for Thought: Using Data and AI to Address Human Trafficking

About the speakers: 

Grant Miller

Grant Miller is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine, a core faculty member at Stanford Health Policy, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Miller’s primary interests are health economics, development economics, and economic demography. His work has been published in numerous journals. He holds a BA from Yale University and an MPP and PhD from Harvard University.

Kim Babiarz

Kim Babiarz is a Research Scholar of the Center for Health Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. Babiarz’s research focuses on fertility and family planning programs, infant and maternal health, and the gender dynamics of global health. She has studied human trafficking in China and SouthEast Asia, and currently works on quantitative approaches to issues of human trafficking and child labor in Brazil.  Babiarz specializes in large-scale program evaluations and quasi-experimental study designs. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis (2011).

Sierra Wells

Sierra Wells is an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Human Trafficking Data Lab. Her academic interests center on using quantitative analysis as a tool to better understand human rights violations in Latin America. Wells has worked with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) on projects about police brutality in Puerto Rico and civilian casualties in the Guatemalan armed conflict, as well as with Mexican NGO Data Cívica analyzing homicides of women in the country. Wells is currently a Stanford senior pursuing a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Data Science.